Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Posters Feature Spock and Captain Pike

Exploration is logical.

By Laura Prudom

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 launches on Jan. 17, and the second voyage of the CBS All Access series brings us closer to the original show than ever before, with the introduction of Ethan Peck as Spock and Anson Mount as Captain Pike.

But this isn't the Spock we came to know and love in the original series, according to Kurtzman. “He actually hasn’t gotten to the place where he’s more sanguine about his logic side. He’s really struggling through which -- as a result of things that have happened, as a result of the visitation by the Red Angel, as a result of seeing these signals -- his logic brain has been totally fried," he said at New York Comic-Con. "And all of his logic training has failed him in many ways. And his emotional inner life has been suppressed in so many ways. So he really doesn’t know which way to turn. And that’s a big part of what he’s struggling through. In many ways, it’s the story of how Spock becomes the Spock we meet in TOS.”

You might be surprised to see Culber's prominent placement in one of the posters, but despite his character's demise in Season 1, Cruz is a series regular for Season 2, and the showrunners have confirmed Culber's return - although the circumstances around that resurrection remain a mystery for now.

“In the whole universe, this is probably her best toy,” she said. “Because Section 31 has all the most updated gadgets, because they are the most informed, and she, as an engineer, she can hack into Section 31. And [the Section 31 member who recruited her] Leland thinks he’s in charge of the ship. But she finds out secrets. Because that’s what Section 31 does. It’s collected secrets all over the universe about certain people, and history, and things like that. And so, when you have [those] kind of secrets, it’s power. And for Philippa Georgiou, that’s perfect! So, if she has to be here, she wants to be in Section 31, and she wants to run it, right?”